Live hangs while launching due to outdated MIDI drivers (Mac)

Live Versions: 8.2.5 - 10

Operating System: OS X 10.7 and higher

The most prominent MIDI problem on OSX is caused by a Digidesign MIDI driver which is obviously not fully compatible with later versions of OSX and causes all MIDI applications to hang while trying to initialize this driver. The system's Audio-MIDI-Setup is for example also affected (/Applications/Utilities/).

In this case, you will notice the following problems:

Live is unresponsive while launching on Mac OS 10.7 or above and takes 5-10 minutes to start.